Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many trees her Department has planted since September 2021.

The Forestry Commission reports on the area of land newly planted with trees in England annually in the Forestry Commission Key Performance Indicators available on GOV.UK. The most recent report available is for 2021-22 at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/forestry-commission-key-performance-indicators-report-for-2021-22. It states that 2,416 hectares of land has been newly planted with trees with government support. This equates to an estimate of 4.0 million trees.

The interim figures for the first half of 2022-23 are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/forestry-commission-key-performance-indicators-headline-performance-update-at-30-september-2022. This report states that 817 hectares of land has been newly planted with trees with government support. This equates to an estimate of 1.4 million trees.